Pauladeen.com Bobby Deen is back in Kansas City with the promise of indulgence without sacrifice. And so he’s partnering with the area restaurant that strives to offer the same thing nightly: Seasons 52 (340 Ward Parkway). Deen has a new cookbook – From Mama’s Table to Mine: Everybody’s Favorite Comfort Foods at 350 Calories or Less – that fits with…
Facebook: Funnel Cake Truck Twinkies live here. Old Twinkies never expire – they just fade away. Devotees of the deathless yellow sponge cake discovered that the hard way at the end of 2012, when the snack staple vanished from shelves, following Hostess Brands’ bankruptcy liquidation. But there’s hope. Last week, Hostess identified two lead bidders for its iconic convenience-store pastry…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Troy Diggs Occupation: Fox 4 morning news producer Hometown: Jonesboro, Arkansas Current neighborhood: Columbus Park, the neighborhood that nobody really knows is there, but it’s such an awesome place to be – great community, great history and great food. Who or what is your sidekick? It’s gotta be my iPhone. A few years ago, I…
A little more than halfway through the performance at the Coterie Theatre, a schoolboy in the audience asked a classmate: “What’s so funny?” He was wondering why students from another group — four classes of fourth- to sixth-graders were at the theater — had erupted in laughter several times at Number the Stars. It’s not a comedy (though there is…
Bloodbirds Over the past year and a half, local trio Bloodbirds has released a handful of EPs, the common denominator being a dark, psych-tinged post-punk sound. The group is led by Mike Tuley, who has brought the same unhinged quality to Bloodbirds that he did to his former group, Ad Astra Per Aspera. Bloodbirds’ new LP, Psychic Surgery, is out…
Clarence Reid penned hit songs for such acts as KC and the Sunshine Band, Gwen McCrae, and Sam & Dave in the 1960s and ’70s. But it was his after-hours forays into funk and parody records that led to the creation of Blowfly, Reid’s alter ego. Blowfly’s music — mostly filthy raps about pussies and dicks and fucking — has…
Not so long ago, the mechanisms that turned a coin into a song seemed futuristic, robotic. The smooth series of gestures inside a jukebox — sometimes visible under a dome, sometimes tucked under a cabinet — was made with music-embracing arms. The selector arm pulled the disc (shellac or vinyl or aluminum) close, cradled it, guided it to the platter,…
Last October, if you had told the New York Film Festival press corps that Amour and its writer-director, Michael Haneke, would be major Oscar players, there would have been some chortles. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tends not to reward a film as deliberate and exacting as the latest from Austria’s favorite taskmaster. It’s a pitiless examination…
University of Missouri-Kansas City center Ashli Hill’s elbow smashes the face of an opposing player. The crowd at the Swinney Recreation Center gasps as a bloodied Eastern Michigan University guard crumples on the hardwood during a late-December women’s basketball game. The silence on this Saturday afternoon is shattered by a boisterous voice from courtside. “That’s like taking a 9-iron to…
The day after artist Anthony Baab’s A Strenuous Nonbeing opened, more than 50 people showed up at Grand Arts to hear him talk about his latest exhibition. Stacy Switzer, the space’s artistic director, said it was the largest crowd she’d seen there for such an event. The weather helped. January 19 was an unseasonably warm day, almost as hospitable as…
Tamales are a warm blanket for your stomach. Forget buffalo meat. The oldest dish in the Americas may be the tamale. The name comes from the Nahuatl word tamalli, and versions of the distinctive, corn-flour-derived sustenance date back to the Aztecs and Mayans. Traditionally steamed in a cornhusk or a banana leaf, the tamale is also the first fast food,…
khawkins04 Roses may be easier to find on Valentine’s Day than dinner reservations. If you’re thinking that all of the really popular restaurants in Kansas City are booked up for next Thursday, February 14 – Valentine’s Day is one of the busiest nights for restaurants in the United States – you’re probably right. But because there are always procrastinators out…
Cam in the house tonight Cam’Ron kicked off 2013 by dropping a new single, “You Know This.” It’s not terrible. Like a lot of Cam’s stuff, it’s a dense, non-sequitur-ridden brag session. But it’s not a return to his early ’00s form, either. This Riot Room show seems like it could go either way. It might be a no-effort, cash-grab…
From the Sprint Center Facebook page. Sunday night, on Twitter, Lady Gaga shouted out Kansas City ribs. She did so again Monday night, during the encore of her show at the Sprint Center. She was perched up on the third floor of the elaborate castle that serves as the stage backdrop for shows on the Born This Way Ball, her…
It’s cloudy with a chance of drinking. A little bit of sunshine comes across your desk on February 5 or, as it known in Gary Lezak’s house, National Weatherperson’s Day. Boulevard’s latest Smokestack Series release, Grainstorm Black Rye IPA, is on shelves now. Boulevard gave Fat City a bottle of the dark brew that checks in at 7.7 percent ABV….
Flickr: mrjasonweaver Hand over the keypad, buddy. Missouri Rep. Michele Kratky (D-St. Louis) wants to take the keypad away from drivers. She has introduced a bill, HB 394, that would ban Missourians from texting while driving. The bill, which currently doesn’t have a hearing scheduled, reads as follows: Prohibits all drivers, regardless of age, from text messaging while operating a…
The Rieger If you lived here, you’d be eating right now. You might be proud of what’s coming out of your kitchen, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t match up to what’s cooking at the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange. The former Rieger Hotel, the building that holds the first-floor restaurant and the basement speakeasy Manifesto, is for sale. (Back…
Facebook: Conrad’s More hops than Lebron James. If you weren’t an early adopter on this batch of Bell’s Hopslam, you haven’t yet missed the boat. Conrad’s Restaurant and Alehouse (210 N. State Route 291, in Liberty) is tapping a keg of the rare seasonal at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. If you wish to make it a take-off-work thing, happy hour starts…
Ashford Stamper When the Rusty Horse Tavern opened in Parkville last year, a sandwich category must have seemed a little too plebeian because the first menu at the place listed the burgers and bratwurst-on-bun creations as “hand held meals.” The owners have evidently come to their senses because the category is now just titled “sandwiches.” But the desire to be…
Kansas Citians flocked to the Crossroads for First Friday gallery openings on Friday, February 1. Photos by Lynn Collins
It’s Vampire Weekend Monday! After announcing the title of their new album in the classified section of today’s New York Times, the NYC quartet has revealed a U.S. tour. It stops here in Kansas City, at the Midland, on Sunday, May 19. Tickets on sale this Friday, February 8, at 10 a.m. Categories: Music
